| Jamestown
Settlement: Visit a reconstructed Powhatan village. See how Native Americans
lived on the eve of contact with European adventurers; board replicas of
the ships that brought British colonists to Virginia. |
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James
Fort: Talk with archaeologists about their excavation of James Fort,
where British settlement in the New World finally took hold. Walk the
streets of Jamestown as it was when rebels burned it to the ground in
1676. |
| Martin's
Hundred: Explore the remnants of a village wiped out in a massive Native
American revolt in 1622. Ponder the arrival of Africans in Virginia in 1619,
a year before the Mayflower ferried the Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in New
England. |
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Climb the stairs
of Bacon's Castle, Virginia's
oldest surviving home, to get a view visitors have enjoyed since 1665.
Visit plantation homes where lives of wealthy planters intertwined with
those of their yeoman neighbors and their African-American laborers in
the eighteenth century. |
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Look
for meaning in the presentation of life at the reconstructed Carter's
Grove Plantation slave quarter, then actually participate in an archaeological
excavation of a slave quarter at Fairfield Plantation to discover new
material clues to the nature of a vanished African American community.
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Follow
the lives of African Americans, half the population of Williamsburg at the
time of the Revolution, through music, the survival of African customs,
crafts, religion. Celebrate the preservation of their humanity and their
heritage in the face of slavery. |
| Go
on an eighteenth-century shopping spree in Colonial Williamsburg-find the
clothing, hats, fifes, drums, candles, playing cards, games, rolling hoops,
baskets, candy, newspapers, and gingerbread cookies that colonials treasured.
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Seek
the meaning of religious experiences to colonials of every class and color.
Undertake detective work amid the tombs in a colonial churchyard. ... and
more! |
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